Jack White Announces New Album 'Lazaretto,' Confirms Release Date, Streaming First Single

Jack White has officially confirmed June 10 as the release date of his new solo record "Lazaretto."

Due via Third Man Records and Columbia, the album was announced with "High Ball Stepper" single, a blazing instrumental interlaced with captivating piano parts. Stream it below, now.

Rolling Stone delved into the album's title, sharing an interesting history of the word "Lazaretto" in the English dictionary.

As the explanation reads, the word first appeared in mid-16th century with William Thomas' "The Historie of Italie." The scholar wrote about a house two miles from Venice, called the Lazaretto "where people struck with plague are cared for."

As the report further notes, "the term is a corruption of the name of that original building, a converted monastery located on an island outside Venice that reopened as Santa Maria di Nazareth in 1423."

The song is great but I don't care for the video. It'd be cool for some shots but an entire video of vibrating starch, water and food coloring?? Come on... this is just my opinion, the man obviously has worlds more creativity than I do.

You sign up (costs me $80) and four times a year Third Man Records ships you a vault package, which is only available once. It's a quarterly subscription, so you pay for each package. If you just want the one package, just cancel the subscription afterwards. You aren't paying to sign up for some site, you're paying for the vault package, which includes the actual physical records as well as access to the vault section on the TMR site.